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 12 s. ix. AUG. e, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 109 THE LANCASHIRE HOLLANDS.' The following note with reference to the Sutton Hall branch of this family may be of interest our forefathers (the expression is his) did it, and we did it in memory of them. He said it was taught by an old man who lived to those readers who possess Mr. Bernard j near or in a cave. I asked where the cave Holland's book, ' The Lancashire Hollands.' | was. He answered " near Bromley." I The last-named Thomas Holland (living asked how he made his grotto, and he said 1717), shown in the pedigree on p. 238, with grass, cockle-shells, and flowers when changed his name to Waring in the hope of he could get them. I think this mid- avoiding penalties on account of his summer folklore in an urban district is religion. The following is a short pedigree | interesting when one remembers the caves (given to me by a descendant) showing some of Chislehurst and Blackheath, the mar- vellous shell-lined grotto of Margate, and of his descendants : Thomas Holland (afterwards = Ann Waring of the cockles of the Iceni and other races. Waring). Living 1717, as j Goosnargh, So far as I can discover, the proper time already named above. I Co. Lanes. f or earth-worship is midsummer. I have met with the grotto in May ; but often it Ja ! S iST LWus4 7 EUlabeth - Postponed Vtil the schools close for and farm known as Bleaky I holidays. U. J. Height. ! Joh ^n Waring of Bleaky Height = Mary Crook. ^.^, House. Married at Hoghton j OUCttCS. Church. Margaret Waring = James Turner. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries Issue. in order that answers may be sent to them direct. Sicco PEDE. For some time past I have been puzzled by a Latin idiom frequently used by Linnaeus in his series of dissert a- FREDERIC CROOKS. Eccleston Park, Prescot. THE ROYAL ROUTE TO WEYMOUTH. I am indebted to the Town Clerk of Weymouth j tions "reprinted as ' Amoenitates Acade- and to Mr. Harry Pouncy, of the Dorset m i ca e,' namely, " sicco pede." Here is an Field Club, for information upon this sub- instance from the thesis ' Betula nana ' : ject. King George III. and his suite j p r i or em Betulae speciem Europaeis, et made fourteen summer holiday visits to in j^s, septentrionalibus praecipue notissi- Weymouth between 1789 and 1805. On mam sicco pec i e pra eterimus . . ." mean- the occasion of his first visit, and also that of ing to pass over or by the named object ; 1792, the King started from Windsor, and elsewhere it is var i e d as " sicco, ut aiunt, apparently accomplished the journey in a pede > . ."from which it would seem day. The Times of Aug. 13, 1792, says : to be a colloquialism at Upsala at a time On Friday morning at 4 o'clock the Royal wne n so much instruction and conversation S WA WMfffift f of 2S: was still conducted in Latin. I have asked bury's on their journey, and they are expected for an explanation of classical and Swedish to arrive at Gloucester Lodge, Weymouth, in the friends, but hitherto in vain. " Dryshod evening. is in Swedish " torrskodd " or " torrfot," The route followed was apparently through but it seems only used in a literal and not Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester. Fur- 1 a metaphorical sense. If anj^ reader of ther references to this may be found in the ' ' N". & Q.' can supply light on this point, Court Circulars, and in the Diary of Fanny I shall be grateful. Burney. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. B. DAYDON JACKSON. 101, Piccadilly. BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY. I should be " REMEMBER THE GROTTO." -A few yards much obliged if some one could refer me from Lewisham Obelisk, on July 23, I was to any book or article giving an account of invited by three barefoot little boys to Babylonian astronomy as known from the " remember the grotto." As I am always cuneiform tablets what were the Baby- interested in the festival, I asked questions. ! Ionian names for planets and stars, &c. The most intelligent one explained that ! J. C. HUGHES.